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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

chaos, debris, plumber. I hate the english language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chaos was mine, I still grit my teeth when I remember first saying to others how I thought it was pronounced and that was almost 3 and a half decades ago...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

My classmates thought I was saying 'cheers' in singaporean. Bless them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's not the language it's the transliteration, Noah Webster tried to fix it though